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In Reply to: How did I listen for phase errors? posted by NickWay on May 27, 2005 at 12:38:20:
More forward is probably "correct" phase and laid back is probably "incorrect". I put those words in quotes because on multitracked recordings (almost all), the separate instrument or vocal tracks may be out of phase relative to one another, so the 'correct' phase for such recordings is problematic. As Abe points out, it's a coin toss whether a given CD is in correct phase or not.
Way back in the day, 20 years ago, when "absolute phase" first became a common topic of discussion among 'philes, my friends and I spent considerable time experimenting, even kludging together speaker level switch boxes so we could A/B back and forth on the fly. We came to the following conclusions:1) Absolute phase IS audible,
2) There's no consistency as to phase from one record by the same label or artist to the next,
3) There's often no consistency as to phase between individual cuts on the same record, or even individual tracks within the same cut,
and finally,
4) Who cares? We concluded that the differences are slight and not musically meaningful.
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